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India white-collar hiring falls 12% as growth in oil and gas fail to offset declines in IT industry

6 December 2023

White collar hiring in India trended downward for the two-month period ending November 2023 with a decrease of 12% compared to the same two-month period ending November 2022, according to the latest Naukri JobSpeak Index.

Naukri pointed to the Diwali festival as the reason it recorded data for the October-November...


Australian job ads fall 16.8% in November as labour market cools

6 December 2023

Job advertisements in Australia declined by 16.8% year-on-year in November 2023 on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to ANZ-Indeed job ads data published on ANZ Bank.

On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, job ads fell by 4.6% in November. In trend terms, job ads were down 3.4% over the month.

ANZ...


Professionals take the lion's share of Malaysia’s Q2 online job vacancies

6 December 2023

Online job vacancies in Malaysia grew by 29.3% in the second quarter of 2023 compared to the second quarter of 2022, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia.

Vacancies reached a record 261,231 in Q2. The number of job vacancies advertised online surged 23.5% in the second quarter of 2023. During...


Half of new jobs in S. Korea created for the elderly in 2022 (Xinhua)

6 December 2023

Half of new jobs in South Korea were created for elderly people last year, with youth employment rising slightly, reports Xinhua, citing data from Statistics Korea. The number of jobs stood at 26.45 million in 2022, up 870,000 from the previous year. Jobs for those aged 60 or older increased by 440,000,...


Tongdao Liepin Group Q3 revenue slides 12.9% as profits fall amid a limited recovery in recruitment demand

5 December 2023

Tongdao Liepin Group (6100:HKG), the operator of Chinese online recruitment platform Liepin.com, reported revenue on 24 November of RMB 558.9 million (USD 78.8 million) for the three months ended 30 September 2023, a decrease of 12.9% when compared to the previous year.

Revenue was primarily generated...


Australian university staff lose more than $100 million due to wage theft

5 December 2023

More than 97,000 university staff have collectively lost nearly AUD 159 million (USD 104.5 million) in stolen wages, according to an analysis by the National Tertiary Education Union.

The NTEU's second Wage Theft Report analysed 55 incidents of wage theft across 32 institutions, which resulted in AUD...


New rules for fixed-term contracts in Australia come into effect

5 December 2023

New rules will come into effect from 6 December 2023 when engaging employees in Australia on fixed-term contracts.

The new rules require employers to give any employees they're engaging on a new fixed-term contract a Fixed Term Contract Information Statement (FTCIS). They also include some limitations...


Quess Corp signs agreement with government to boost employability for Indian youth

5 December 2023

Quess Corp, the Indian staffing firm, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to enhance the employability of Indian youth.

NSDC is the skill development organisation under the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship...


CoPro Technology takes over Pacific Information Consultants’ SES business

4 December 2023

Copro Holdings, a Japan-based holding company which owns a number of businesses including temporary staffing firm Copro Technology, announced it will acquire the system engineering service business (SES) from Pacific Information Consultants (PIC).

The acquisition is via Copro’s subsidiary Copro Technology....


Nearly half of workers do not feel their workplace is disability-friendly

4 December 2023

Almost half of workers globally (47%) do not feel their workplace is adequately prepared to accommodate persons with disabilities, according to a survey by Hays.

On the other hand 41% from the poll feel as though their workplace is ready to accommodate persons with disabilities.

Hays data also indicates...